What??? How did I get in there? I’m not at Skepticon. I’ve never been at Skepticon. I’ve never been asked or approached. I’m not on their radar even a little bit. Why ask one of the organizers (Lauren Lane) why go for cheap drama bloggers like me when she doesn’t and they don’t?

Strange, isn’t it. Even not being there and not being on the radar is no protection from being reported to organizers as someone who shouldn’t be there. “Ok you didn’t ask her and weren’t planning to and have no clue who she is but Ima ask you anyway: Y U INVITE PEOPLE LIKE HER??!”

Thanks, Aratina. Turns out Sara is retweeting an exchange from Aug 7 of this year, when CarbonKyle was uninvited from SK6 because part of the materials he submitted for a workshop on aviation included his comic that featured a bunch of stereotypically silly women. “After reading through some of your comics, it appears that a lot of them have sexist undertones that are not congruent with the tone of our event.” (from the organizer, not named in CarbonKyle’s Reddit posting on what happened.)

I wonder how she’ll try to spin it when it finally gets through that you aren’t there.

The obvious spin is that in Ophelia’s case, it’s a rhetorical question in the subjunctive mood rather than straight-forward interrogative as are the others, and that they’re grouped thus due to the constraint of the medium.

(I hope you’re familiar enough with my techniques to realise that I realise your own question was rhetorical )

@angharad#20-
Oh, it’s far more ominous that that, I think. They’ve managed to stage a walkout so effective that it’s like the talk never even happened. Ophelia herself wasn’t even there! What a humiliating defeat for the FTBullies, eh?

All you pseudo-“skeptics” with your uncritical commitment to “factual accuracy” and “critical thinking” and “intellectual honesty” and all that crap. Every True Skeptic™ knows that the only real criterion for deciding what counts as true is the degree to which it puts the #FTBullies in a bad light.